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Birds of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands : Fully Revised and Updated Third Edition
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2021.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- CONTENTS
- Artist Credits
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Introduction
- Aims
- Species Coverage
- Taxonomy
- Species Accounts
- Size
- Other Common Names
- Behavior
- Description
- Plumages
- Similar Species
- Flight
- Voice
- Uniqueness
- Status and Range
- Other Definitions
- Recent Avifaunal Changes
- Present Avifaunal Composition
- Migration
- Causes of Avifaunal Increase
- Field Hazards
- Geography
- Biogeography
- Barriers to Dispersal
- Diversity versus Uniqueness
- Uniqueness: Its Values
- Conservation
- The Problem
- Principal Causes of Extinction and Endangerment
- Earliest Human-Caused Extinctions in the Region
- Recent Extinctions and Extirpations
- Endangered and Threatened Species
- Causes of Endangerment
- Habitat Destruction and Disturbance
- Overhunting
- Invasive Pests
- Chemicals
- Climate Change
- Endangered Species List
- Proposed Conservation Measures
- Descriptive Parts of a Bird
- Species Accounts and Color Illustrations
- Ocean Birds
- Coastal Seabirds
- Long-legged Wetland Birds (mostly Waders)
- Medium-legged Wetland Birds (mostly Waders)
- Other Wetland Birds
- Ducks/Duck-like Waterbirds
- Medium- and Long-legged Upland Birds
- Birds of Prey
- Land Birds
- Vagrants
- Vagrants with Insufficient Records
- Unestablished Introductions
- Hypothetical
- Places to Bird
- Puerto Rico
- U.S. Virgin Islands
- British Virgin Islands
- Index
- Index of Local Names